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lxml is a full-featured, high performance Python library for processing XML and HTML.

Questions that concern the lxml Python library should have this tag. Per the XML website, "The lxml XML toolkit is a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt." The library's lxml.etree package is used for XML processing. lxml's BeautifulSoup package parses broken HTML. html5lib uses the HTML5 parsing algorithm.

Links:

https://lxml.de/ - Contains API documentation and tutorials

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-hiperfparse/ - IBM developerWorks page on lxml

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How do I select a link with a right arrow as the text with xpath?

I'm attempting to select the next button on a website, and it has a right arrow as the text of the link. When I view the source using "scrappy shell" it shows me the character as its unicode literal "\u2192". With this, I developed the following…
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How to correct this python3.4 lxml multicore detection?

Trying to build lxml with static dependencies > # python3.4 setup.py bdist_egg --static-deps ... config.status: creating Makefile config.status: executing libtool commands make: Warning: Ignoring DistributedMake -j option make: Fatal error: No…
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Getting parent tag id with lxml

I am trying scrape a dummy site and get the parent tag of one that I am searching for. Heres the structure of the code I am searching for:
Heres my python…
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XPath for sub-element's text value in lxml

First of all, is it possible to do such thing? I have been trying out to generate Xpath expression by using "sub-element text values" present in webpage. Trying to do this using lxml (etree, html, getpath), ElementTree modules in Python. But I don't…
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lxml for Qpython3 (Python3 on Android)

Is there a way to install lxml on Qpython3(Python3 on Android)? I could not find anything on google. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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xml to Python data structure using lxml

How can I convert xml to Python data structure using lxml? I have searched high and low but can't find anything. Input example Mozilla Firefox firefox Leading Open Source…
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Not Condition In xpath

I have the following xml : This is a question on xpath Do not extract this I…
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Scraping Data with Python and LXML

I am facing some difficulty in scraping data with lxml. The code snippet is: from lxml import etree parser = etree.HTMLParser() f = open("test1.html", "r") content = f.read() tree = etree.fromstring(content, parser) print…
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How would you give Chrome's version of a webpage to python?

I'm trying to make it easy for users to input numbers from a web page. The easiest thing I can imagine would be for them to provide a url and an xpath associated with that number. My code could then go grab the numbers. The concept of an xpath…
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lxml (xml python parser) go to next element

Has someone know how to jump to the next element in xml? i.e Text number 2 Text number 3 ... Text number N ... I would like to be able…
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Extracting contents from a list split across different divs

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python: examine XSD xml schema

I would like to examine a XSD schema in python. Currently I'm using lxml which is doing it's job very very well when it only has to validate a document against the schema. But, I want to know what's inside of the schema and access the elements in…
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XSLT get parent in match lxml python

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Error when installing python-xbrl 1.0.7

I got the problem of installing xbrl module to python, and it has bothered me for two days and I haven't solved it. I successfully installed pip. I got the same problem when installing lxml https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-xbrl/1.0.7 When I use:…
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How to add python keyword terms as tag attributes in lxml?

I'm using lxml to build an XML based on some data. root = etree.Element('sentences') for item in aspectSentenceList: print item sentenceTag = etree.SubElement(root, "sentence", id=item[0]) textTag = etree.SubElement(sentenceTag,…
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